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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348030998337 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Thomas Moor <tommoor21@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <tommoor1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:50:28 +0100
Subject: GET BACK TO ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED



Good day, Dear Sir,I am sorry to intrude into your private and peaceful life, all the same My name is Mr.Thomas Moor.I work in the credit and accounts department of OCEANIC Bank of Nigeria Plc,Lagos. I write you in respect of a foreign customer with a Domicilliary account. His name is Engineer Manfred Becker. He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria.Since the demise of this our customer, who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of his deposit records and accounts and since then nobody has come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Engineer as he did not indicate any registered next of kin. He had only $10mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or password of the deposit particulars. As it stands now,there is nobody in that position to produce the needed information other than my very self considering my position in the bank.Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of kin, I hereby ask for your cooperation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you. At this point I am the only one with the informations because I have removed the deposit file from the safe.By so doing, what is required is to send an application laying claims of the deposit on your name as next of kin to the late Engineer. I will need your full name and address telephone/fax number,company or residential. I want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that reason a local cannot represent as next of kin. Reach me on this number for further discussions 00234-803-099-8337Hoping to hear from you soonestI remain Respectfully yours,Mr Thomas Moor00234-803-099-8337
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